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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash - changing a color of a substring Post 302597710 by agama on Saturday 11th of February 2012 03:59:46 PM
Old 02-11-2012
Unless 'tput' is a shell built-in (it's not in my environment), I'd avoid it as that's an awful lot of process creation. I'd use escape sequences assuming you're working in an xterm environment. This works under xterm run by either Kshell or bash and should illustrate how to change colours using escape sequences:


Code:
#!/usr/bin/env ksh
grey=30
red=31
green=32
yellow=33
blue=34
purple=35
white=36

function colour_string
{
        typeset colour=$1
        shift
        printf  "\e[1;%dm%s" $colour "$*"   set the desired colour with escape, then write string
}

echo "type these characters without spaces:"
desired=( a b c d e f g)
echo "${desired[@]}"
i=0
while read -n 1 x
do
        resp[$i]=$x
        i=$(( i + 1 ))
        if (( i >= ${#desired[@]} ))
        then
                break;
        fi
done

printf "\n"
for (( i = 0; i < ${#desired[@]}; i++ ))
do
        if [[ ${resp[$i]} == ${desired[$i]} ]]
        then
                colour_string $green "${resp[$i]}"
        else
                colour_string $red "${resp[$i]}"
        fi
done
printf "\n"


Last edited by agama; 02-11-2012 at 05:01 PM.. Reason: wording
 

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